Let There Be Light

The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patient. As a patient, he has struggled with recurring...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or...

A closer look at the science of Human evolution, and how much early humans might've contributed to the extinction of large mammals during the Ice Age.

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare...

A short doc about how faces are perceived: by scientists, by artists, by animals. How do we remember faces so well if we can barely describe them...

Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long...

Though our world is full of sound, we only notice the noise. Sound can thrill, delight, warn, and scare us. But there's much more to the story. Sound...

Since 2003, human DNA has been completely decoded. Scientists are currently working on decoding all of the body's own proteins, the so-called Proteom...

Stones from the sky - tangible pieces of other worlds. After millions of years of wandering in the darkness and the cold expanses of space,...

Dr. Heinz Haber, a noted scientist in the field of atomic energy, hosts this look at the possibility of an exciting new power source. He starts by...

Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year...